Tie-dog for railroad-rails



(No Model.)

' J. T. FEINDEL.

TIE DOG FOR RAILROAD RAILS.

No; 496,254. Patented Apr. '25, 1893.1

WITNESSES. W gM I ATTORNEYS.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN T. FEINDEL, OF SOMERVILLE, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-THIRD TO LYMAN 0.

- GARRETSON, NEW'ARK, NEW JERSEY.

TIE-DOG FOR RAl LROAD-RAILS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 496,254, dated April25, 1893.

Application filed August 29, 1892.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, J OHN T. FEINDEL, of Somerville, in the county ofSomerset and State of New Jersey, have invented a new andImprovedTie-DogforRailroad-Rails, of which the following is a full,clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to a tie-dog for railroad rails, and has for itsobject to provide a dog capable of being attached to a sleeper and whichwill serve to prevent a rail from leaving the place upon the sleeperdesigned for it, and thus serving to prevent the rails from spreading,and maintaining an even gage throughout the length of the track.

The invention consists in the novel con-' struction of the device, aswill be hereinafter fully set forth and pointed out in the claim.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings forming a part ofthis specification, in which similar letters of reference indicatecorresponding parts in both the figures.

Figure l is a plan view of one of the dogs applied to a rail; and Fig. 2is a section taken practically on the line 2-2 of Fig. 1.

The dog is preferably made of one piece of metal, and comprises a bodyA, which may beof any desired shape; in the drawings it is shownrectangular in cross section, and of greater width at one end than atthe other, but if in practice it is found desirable the body may be ofthe same width throughout its length. At one end of the body, which isto be in practice the inner end, an arm B, is formed, standing at aright angle to the body, which arm is shaped essentially as a spike, asitis to be driven into the sleeper 0 upon which the rail D is laid. Thearm B, is projected from the side edge of the body, and at the oppositeend of the body a claw E, is produced, which claw preferably constitutesan integral portion of the body, and when so made the Serial No.444,392. (No model.)

claw is bent upward, then inward over the top surface of the body, andthe under face of the claw is then shaped to conform to the uppersurface of the rail flange, as shown in Fig. 2. Therefore, the clawstands more or lessat an obtuse angle to the body.

In operation, after the rails have been laid upon the sleepers, theflanges of the rails are engaged by the claws E of any desired number ofdogs, and the dogs are passed beneath the bottoms of the rails to apoint between the rails of a track, and their spike arms B, arethereupon driven in one side surface of the sleeper adjacent to whichthey are located.

It is obvious that this device is not only simple, durable andeconomical in construction, but it may be expeditiously and convenientlyapplied to tracks while being laid or after they have been laid; and therails are so fastened to the sleepers that they are ef-,

fectually prevented from spreading apart and departing from the propergage; and as the major portion of the dogs is located alongside of thesleepers below the top surfaces thereof the said portions of the devicesare concealed by the ballast of the road, and the claws E only arevisible or exposed.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patent-- 7 As an improved article of manufacture the tie dogfor railroad rails the same consisting of the body portion having theclawE at one end for engaging the outer flange of a rail and at theother end the spike arm B, which projects laterally to adapt it toentera tie, as shown and described.

JOHN T. FEINDEL.

Witnesses:

J. FRED. ACKER, E. M. CLARK.

